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OLD, bright, hard, yellow, and eold, 

Spurned by the young, hugged by the old, 

To the very verge of the church yard mould." 

— That ’.<• the Past- 



Symbol: Au. Atomic weight, 196; hardness, 2; specific 
gravity, 19; color, pale yellow; lustre, metallic; ductile and 
jalleable. 

^ — That V the Mineralogist. 

Jt is for what men wear out their lives. 

— Thai ’j the If ur/ran Race. 



PAGE THREE 


Be as business-like in mining as you would be in manutacturing. 

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PAGE FOUR 


AT THE 

BEGINNING 



PENINGS or fissures have been made in the rocks, 
probably by volcanic action. Into these fissures 
vein matter has been thrown. The rocks adjoin- 
__ing the veins originally contained the gold. In¬ 
tensely hot water, with great solvent power, in ages of work, 
it is thought, took the gold from the rocks, and left it in the 


veins. 




‘A'co*i^+ry roc-k.oir'iytonalty 
Corrtatnc.d ^old. 



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SHE9AS BrEAS'^ 


WHERE IT 
IS FOUND 


PAGE FIVE 


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UCH of the gold of the world was found formerly 
in gravel or the sands of rivers, or on the slopes 
of mountains. This gold came from the tearing 
down by nature of gold bearing veins. The gold 
of the ancients, and the gold of '49 was found so. Such gold 
is called alluvial or placer gold. To-day much is found in 
quartz or lode mining as in Cripple Creek and Cripple Park. 

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Ancjent^. 


Gold IS where you find it. 




























PAGE SIX 



VEINS 
























































































PAGE SEVEN 


HOW GOLD APPEARS IN VEINS 







One threc-dollar-a-day miner is worth a dozen roll-top desks and ribbon-trimmed waste baskets. 


may appear in scales, plates or masses. Or it 
may be so minute that it is not visible to the naked 
eye, and yet the ore be rich in gold, as are some 
ores in Cripple Creek. 
























PAGE EIGHT 



WHAT 

TELLURIUM 

IS 


$ 


r is a metal; the color is a tin-white. It is very 
brittle, and is seldom found in a native state. 

It is a base with which the precious metals are 
found in combination. 

When it unites with gold the ore is called “Telluride of 
Gold.” 


Mo use. 

IN 

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PAGE NINE 



KIND OF 

CRIPPLE CR] 
ORES 







RES of precious metals are generally named from 
a prominent constituent that is in the ore with the 
metal. Thus the ores of Cripple Creek are 
called “Tellurides of Gold.” 



Do not expect to get rich in a minute. 






























PAGE TEN 


n-BT R A OV MITE. 
HBSStTB 
PET XITE. 



THE TELLURIDES 


aboemt 

MEMBCRS. 







HE Tellurides form a iarnily, and only certain ones 
are found in Cripple Creek. Hence it is conven¬ 
ient to give the ore its exact name,—as Sylvanite, 
Calaverite. The name of the former comes 
from Transylvania, Europe. It is also called '‘graphic 
tellclurium,from the occasional resemblance of its crystals 
to the Hebrew characters. 

I'he name Calaverite probably comes from Calaveras Co., 
California. 







CAL.AveR»Ta 















PAGE ELEVEN 


I 



Y Y 

Find a vein—then (fig. 



(IHE ore is composed of gold tellurium, and a trace 
1 of silver. Its appearance is very beautiful, and 
I frequently is that of burnished silver. Such are 
[| Cripple Creek’s richest ores, and they can be seen 
in all the noted mines of that district. 


WHAT MAKES 

AMINE 

VALUABLE 

























































PAGE TWELVE 


HEAT 

SHOWS 

THE 

GOLD 





O the unpracticed eye valuable sylvanite ore does 
not appear rich as it has not the gold color. 
Very intense heat causes the tellurium to pass off 
in a purple flame, and the gold to appear in beau¬ 
tiful bubbles upon the rock. This is called roasting. Such 
treatment produces the beautiful specimens of Cripple Creek 
ores. 

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PAGE THIRTEEN 


PECULIAR BUT IMPORTANT 



HE mines of Cripple Creek, unlike those of many 
other camps, increase in value with depth. Sylvan- 
ite generally comes with depth. 

Examples : All the good mines of the camp. 
This is a peculiar but most important fact to the owner or 
investor. 



ANNA ue£t 
l‘ SHAFT 


in« pT.oecJ^ 










All the gold in the world came out of the sands and the rocks. 























































PAGE FOURTEEN 


c:riPoi_s. 




OOD ore, cheap transportation, and abundant facil¬ 
ities to treat it properly. Many mines have the 
first qualification, and are valueless, due to the | 
lark of the last two. 



APPEARANCE 

AND 

COMPOSITION 


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TRANSPORTATION AND 
TREATMENT FACILITIES 
OF CRIPPLE CREEK 


is treated, 
for the smelter. 


WO railways enter the camp, and afford direct 
communication to the smelters at Denver and 
Pueblo. All the mines are near the chlorination 
and the cyanide works, where the low grade ore 
Tlie richer ore is loaded on the near-by railways 



The successful and inexpensive processes of treating gold ores 

are rapidly removing the elements of chance from honest mining. 















































PAGE SIXTEEN 



CRIPPLE PARK, COLO. 



































































RIPPLE Park is 
situated on Cur¬ 
rent Creek twen¬ 
ty-five miles west 
of Cripple Creek. The 
noted mining engineer, C. 
H. Clark, says: “The 
geological formation of this 
country is identical with 
that of the Cripple Creek 
District. The Trachyte, 
Phonolite and Porphyry are 
all of finer texture, and the 
viens are better defined and 
show more permanency.” 

The recent rich finds in 
the Park assure the reader 
that all the gold mines are 
not yet discovered. 

Cripple Park is about 
2000 feet lower than Cripple 
Creek. A daily coach line 
connects it with Howbert, 11 
miles away, on the Colorado 
Midland R. R. 








































































AGE EIGHTEEN 



OW GOLD IS TAKEN 
ROM THE ORES 


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euEV/^T-o . 


CYANJOC 

SOLUTlO?^ 



amalgamation, cyanide, chlorination 
smelting. The processes in brief are : 
lift-fUfTalgamation the ore is powdered and mixed with mer¬ 
cury which seizes the gold. The amalgam (the gold and 
mercury) is now retorted. The mercury becomes a vapor 
and the gold is left. 

By cyanide the ore is treated with a solution of cyanide of 
potassium. The cyanide searches every cranny of the rock 
and takes the gold into the solution. The solution is drawn 
off and the gold thrown down by certain salts of iron or on 
TZinr shavings. 


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Tdoveti 



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SMELTING 


ilHE chlorinatiou process operates ia somewhat a 
I similar manner to the cyanide, but uses chlorine 
! instead of cyanide. 

In smelting, the ore is mixed with a flux. The 
mixture is treated with intense heat, and the gold finally sep- 
arated. High grade ores are treated by smelting ; low grade 
' by cyanide or chlorination. 






High salaried officers and splendid offices won^t make a gold mine. 

































































PAGE TWENTY 


f . G WHITE. PRtHOENT 


C. M MacNEU.L,Vic£ President 

Victor* Colorado*_ 


E. U. WHITE, Treas. and M’gr 

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The Victor Ore Sampling Compan: 

Bought of_ 


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HOW 

C®JE 

Jio 

]^AiED 


Mill No 

Mtn« No 

Description 

No 04 
S4Ck5 

CrosA Weight 

Percent 

Moisture 

Weight of 
Sacks 

Net welg»i 

Nb'. Value ■ 

Per Ton 

TOui AmciunL 

fyo 




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Gold, 




assay pbr ton 


-ozs , @ 8-5 jS 2L_—peroz. 
&5 per cent Rilvo'- , 0 ^ per oiz. 


Cross Value per Ton. 

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Smelling Charge @ J ^par Net Ton,,, 
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iNef Value per Ton, 




Freight to 
Sampling 0 $ 



f y 

$ 34 ^. 

DEDUCTIONS. 


0(h^/iecc^^ 


per Gross Ton 8 


per Gross Ton per Lot. 


Net Amount to Mine^ 
Unclosed steg^e fi^yd our check ,, Xo _ 



HE entire shipment of ore is sampled by smelter or 
sampling works, an assay of the sample is made 
and the value of the ore per ton is found. 

A check is drawn for the amount thus ascertained 


for _ 

I NO Company 




c 3 /_?g» O cP 


in full set- 


and it is immediately sent the shipper. 




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PAGE TWENTY-ONE 



A MINING CLAIM 
























































PAGE TWENTY-TWO 


TITLE 



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HEN a claim is located and staked with a location 
notice and an assessment shaft dug ten feet deep as 
required by the government, then the claim may 
be surveyed and recorded. This gives a discov¬ 
erer s possessory title which holds the property for one vear. 
When $500 worth of work or improvement has been done on 
the claim then the government of the U. S. will give to the 
legal owner of the claim a patent deed. 

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PAGE TWENTY-THREE 












DYKES 



|YKES are vast masses of rocks thrown up by 
I eruptive forces. Plainly, dykes are stone walls 
formed by nature. Except small portions which 
come to the surface, or “crop,” dykes are under¬ 
ground. In Cripple Creek the dykes are mainly of rock 
called phonolite, and porphyry. 

Ore is generally found near these dykes. 








Anybody may find a gold mine, but it takes a miner to develop one. 
























PAGE TWENTY-FOUR 



suf^e 



N many mining districts there is but one vein, ex¬ 
tending miles, and to be off the vein or dyke, 
makes the property valueless. In Cripple Creek, 
in the eruptive era, were thrown up any number 
of dykes. A proof of this is shown on Raven hill, where 
are situated the Raven, Alice Raven, Catharine, Elkton, Doc¬ 
tor and other mines on different dykes. Other hills illustrate 
this also. Hence, in Cripple Creek, claims near a pay mine 
indicate there are other dykes or veins in the surrounding 
property. 


PROXIMITY 
TO PAY MINES 
OF VALUE IN 
CRIPPLE CREEK 





THAT5 A P-ACT*. 

























PAGE TWENTY-FIVE 



EXPENSE OF WET MINES 

































PAGE TWENTY-SIX 



f w, 







HE Anchoria-Leland stock advanced from 5c to $s 
within a year ; the Portland from 37c to 1 1.7 5; C- 
C. C. from 5c to 30c ; Union from 20c to 40c ; 
Isabella from 17c to 50c. Many dividend-paying 
mines pay from 24 to 50 per cent, annually. 


tvXIKtlMC 
e.XCH AMQE 


PROFITS OF MINING INVESTMENTS 







































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^ 5. C.7 '..v.y.Jii-».;’ . . 


At;^»’..'*-'^;f. .yA*’'V * 


n LOCKS of brick and stone business buildings al- 
ready attest the Chicago result of the conflagration 
which in a mad march mowed down hundreds of 
acres of tinder box houses in Cripple Creek. Fire 
crucial test of cities. Watch what comes up oiit of 
es of Cripple Creek. 


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TWENTlf 

SEVEN 








































PAGE 

TWENTY 

EIGHT 



f 11 I delights of camping in the mountains find an 

accentuated attraction in the possibility of disco- 
^1 vering in your rambles a gold mine. In the Crip- 

. WPS I pie Creek district the tenderfeet ” find the mines. 
A gold pan and a prospector’s hammer will afford you 
inspiriting diversion and perhaps a fortune. 


















































































































PAGE TWENTY-NINE 



5HBaP< 


BUFFALO 



m 


BEAR 


|HE game in the mountains adjacent to Cripple 1 
Park consists of grouse, deer and bear. Grouse | 
and deer are plentiful and bear abound on Thirty- i 
nine Mile, Thirty-one Mile, Bald and Black j 


COLORADO'S 

GAME 


mountains, all of which are within a few miles of the camp. 






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PAGE THIRTY 


VACATION TIIVIE 



Oampin* OmT. 



r was in Switzerland. “ What a beautiful scene ! ” 
said an American to a near by Englishmen. 






^‘True” was the reply, ‘^but there are many 
finer.” “ Impossible ” said the American. Not 
at all. In America in the Rocky Mountains.” The American 
had not seen them. Few Americans have. They cross the 
^jSrffan but have never stood on Mountain Crest at Cripple 
-Tark, breathing the electric air, with Pikes Peak banked up 
against the Eastern sky and the eternal snow clad Sangre 
de Christo’s ragged range, cold and white, piercing 
the flaming light of the setting sun. 



ON T-we. 

































FOR FUN OR 



jITH the new gold developments at Cripple Park 
will rapidly come swarms of ubiquitous prospectors, 
and the big game will be driven back farther in the 
i mountains. 







HE following parties 
will cheerfully give in¬ 
formation about hunt¬ 
ing, camping and 
mining at Cripple Park : Dr. A. 
Harv^ey, Corner Ruby and Sylvan- 
ite Streets, Cripple Park, Colo. ; 
McCart, Burbridge Investment 
Co., Gardner Block, Cripple 
/ Creek, Colo., and O. W. Craw- 
ford, Masonic Temple, Chicago, 
Ill. 




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THIRTV-TWO 


CRIPPLE PARK SPRINGS 


I those at Cripple Park are among the most 

I wonderful. Imagine a spring which has built up 

a mountain of solid soda in the summit of which it 
bubbles and sparkles with all the fire of Champagne—a 
delicious table water just as it comes from the spring. The 
Indians called it Quleeka and claimed If you drink the 
water always you will live always.” 


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